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Title: Corseted Minds: Does Fear of Irrelevance Send Conservative Men Fleeing to the Victorian Age?
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AlterNet
URL Source: http://www.alternet.org/news/154296 ... the_victorian_age/?page=entire
Published: Feb 28, 2012
Author: Lynn Parramore
Post Date: 2012-02-29 14:05:13 by lucysmom
Keywords: None
Views: 34180
Comments: 82
In the last 50 years, American women have finally been able to reliably earn a living, thus rendering men economically unnecessary. Women are outstripping men in education. We’re breaking the glass ceiling. Childbirth out of wedlock no longer carries disgrace. There’s enough sperm stashed away in banks to promulgate the human race indefinitely. On a biological level, modern science has debunked the Adam’s rib story about the female being a derivative of the male. Still more shattering, there’s even worry that the Y chromosome is in danger of extinction. At the very least, it has seen better days. As the New York Times recently reported: “Men, or at least male biologists, have long been alarmed that their tiny Y chromosome, once the same size as its buxom partner, the X, will continue to wither away until it simply vanishes. The male sex would then become extinct, they fear, leaving women to invent some virgin-birth method of reproduction and propagate a sexless species.” That’s gotta make Rick Santorum nervous. (Though the Times does concede that men may have “long-term viability” after all). Conservatives find themselves in an era of technological advance, information on steroids, women on the rise, and men who do not know what their role is supposed to be. Can we be surprised that they look back wistfully on a “simpler time” when gender roles were strictly defined – and when men did the defining?
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#2. To: lucysmom (#0)
Doesn't barney fag dress victorian !
I assume you mean barney as in barney Frank. This article isn't about dress, it's about longing for what can't be.
Like queer marriages !
Boris what do you think is wrong with these people that they support so called queer marriage? Normal healthy societies would never entertain such a notion. What do you think is going to have to happen before we get out of the gutter and start doing the right thing as a nation again?
Shooting people you disagree with isn't the way mature adults deal with conflict. Threatening the life of another with a gun is ultimately controlling, and in keeping with the REAL conservative's" idea of liberty.
Threatening the life of another with a gun is ultimately controlling, and in keeping with the REAL conservative's" idea of liberty. That isn't generally the first thing to do I agree. But after a while it is an option. Ask George Washington.
What are you saying - that Washington didn't murder his fellow American citizens because they were in agreement?
You consider George Washington to be a murderer?
No, you do.
It seems you've really been rattling some cages here today. Surely you know how conservatives hate uppity women. Enough to want to threaten bodily harm to them on the internet it seems. A good woman to a conservative follows the Islamic credo (that they claim to detest) of being submissive. Only in this instance it's to another human being. Without a good supply of slave labor, conservatives would wither up and die.
It is stunning to behold. Someone said the words "All men are created equal" meant all landed white men when they were written, however, the words had power beyond the author's intent.
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#3. To: BorisY (#2)
Doesn't barney fag dress victorian !
#6. To: lucysmom (#3)
it's about longing for what can't be.
#7. To: BorisY (#6)
#9. To: A K A Stone (#7)
What do you think is going to have to happen before we get out of the gutter and start doing the right thing as a nation again?
#16. To: CZ82, A K A Stone (#9)
(Edited)
What do you think is going to have to happen before we get out of the gutter and start doing the right thing as a nation again?
#21. To: lucysmom (#16)
Shooting people you disagree with isn't the way mature adults deal with conflict.
#26. To: A K A Stone (#21)
That isn't generally the first thing to do I agree. But after a while it is an option. Ask George Washington.
#36. To: lucysmom (#26)
#37. To: A K A Stone (#36)
You consider George Washington to be a murderer?
#44. To: lucysmom (#37)
(Edited)
No, you do.
#50. To: mininggold (#44)
It seems you've really been rattling some cages here today. Surely you know how conservatives hate uppity women. Enough to want to threaten bodily harm to them on the internet it seems.
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